The first time the blue (for freedom) and white (for peace) flag was
hoisted in public, the flagpole snapped in two. Ciskei may not be
paradise, but it is undoubtedly persistent. When the black "homeland"
threw itself a raucous second-birthday party, the flagpole stood firm.
As motorcycle teams, tribal dancers and drum majorettes performed in
the local stadium, President Lennox Leslie Wongoma Sebe, 57,
Homburg-hatted and morning-suited, cruised through the streets of
Bisho, his capital city, in a black Cadillac. Then, guarded by a gang
of security men in ill-fitting suits and...